Lyrics Something Tamed Something Wild - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Something Tamed Something Wild

Here’s a shoebox full of letters bound up neatly with some twine
Each one was like a diamond, now the jewel is lost to time
My reward is in the knowing that I held it in my hands for a little while
What else are there but the treasures in your heart?
Something tamed, something wild
For every time that I’ve been foolish when I’d wished that I’d been wise
The power of regret still gets me right between the eyes
And sometimes I want to weep with nothing but the tears of a little child
What else are there but the lessons in your heart?
Something tamed, something wild
Here’s a map I’ve memorized of everywhere I’ve ever been
And the faces of everyone I’ve loved and left to try again
I couldn’t make out what they were saying, so instead I listened hard to what’s
inside
What else is there but the voice inside your heart?
Something tamed, something wild
Some nights I’m woken up by something stirring in my chest
It’s a feeling I’ve no name for, it’s hard to catch my breath
I’m staring down the great big lonesome as I’m listening for the dwindling of
time
What else are there but the echoes in your heart?
Something tamed, something wild
So the things that matter to me now are different from the past
I care less about arriving than just being in the path
Of some light carved out of nothing, the way it feels when the universe has
smiled
What else is there but the beating of your heart?
Something tamed, something wild
Here’s the shoebox full of letters, here’s the map I won’t forget
The voices and the lessons and the signals that connect us
Manifested to the spirit, way deep down where it goes unseen by the eye
What else is there but the love inside your heart?
To a life like a firework’s to a spark
Over and above you in its arc
Something tamed, something wild